Workload and process musings
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gs_silvaI think I'm going to skip my daily comic today. I'm working on continuity instead, and it's an absolute bear of a task. My mother is reading Reader's Digest jokes to me out loud while I work. So it's probably best if I do art stuff rather than script stuff.
In college I made efforts to learn to be a script supervisor. It seemed like a decent career track for me. I can draw storyboards reasonably quickly, I'm good at sitting still for extended periods of time and observing, and I'm better at being an advisor than either a leader or a follower. It didn't happen. I wasn't financially independent enough to go where the jobs were, where the film crews were, and I wasn't assertive enough to put myself out there anyhow. I got a couple of leads and let them slide for various reasons, and that was it.
But now, decades later, I'm kinda back at it. When doing a webcomic, you rush-rush a lot of the creative tasks, and end up with continuity errors in the story and the art.
Like for instance, I have a scene where Jon buys some motorcycle gloves to use as wheelchair gloves, and then I only drew them in twice more. I kept forgetting, and then forgetting I was forgetting, and meaning to go back to it, but suddenly it was time to post the page so it never got done!
I also want to cut-cut-cut a bunch of pages. The book is tooooo long. It's 386 pages, and I have more scenes I want to add that I skipped the first time, for continuity purposes, so I need to cut even more to make room for those too. Which means some more of the subplots are getting axed, in addition to the subplots I killed earlier.
Ren used to have quite a lot of subplot, and now he's just a supporting character. He never appears alone at all. He has one panel where he's doing what he wants to do, instead of the 5 or 6 entire scenes. I hate to think that the book isn't about Ren, but it isn't about Ren anymore. Sorry, guy.
My spouse thought that the early scenes should have as much taking place in France as takes place in the US, but that's difficult. Only 1 out of the 6 characters are in France until one of them takes a trip there and meets her. Then it's another 50 or so pages till they meet again, and even then it feels rushed, so I need to do that brevity thing where I rewrite entire scenes with one or two hardworking lines.
I wish I had some fresh eyes on this to help me. I have a beta reader lined up, but I think he's better for late stages. I don't want to burden him with a bunch of scenes I could've cut myself.
In college I made efforts to learn to be a script supervisor. It seemed like a decent career track for me. I can draw storyboards reasonably quickly, I'm good at sitting still for extended periods of time and observing, and I'm better at being an advisor than either a leader or a follower. It didn't happen. I wasn't financially independent enough to go where the jobs were, where the film crews were, and I wasn't assertive enough to put myself out there anyhow. I got a couple of leads and let them slide for various reasons, and that was it.
But now, decades later, I'm kinda back at it. When doing a webcomic, you rush-rush a lot of the creative tasks, and end up with continuity errors in the story and the art.
Like for instance, I have a scene where Jon buys some motorcycle gloves to use as wheelchair gloves, and then I only drew them in twice more. I kept forgetting, and then forgetting I was forgetting, and meaning to go back to it, but suddenly it was time to post the page so it never got done!
I also want to cut-cut-cut a bunch of pages. The book is tooooo long. It's 386 pages, and I have more scenes I want to add that I skipped the first time, for continuity purposes, so I need to cut even more to make room for those too. Which means some more of the subplots are getting axed, in addition to the subplots I killed earlier.
Ren used to have quite a lot of subplot, and now he's just a supporting character. He never appears alone at all. He has one panel where he's doing what he wants to do, instead of the 5 or 6 entire scenes. I hate to think that the book isn't about Ren, but it isn't about Ren anymore. Sorry, guy.
My spouse thought that the early scenes should have as much taking place in France as takes place in the US, but that's difficult. Only 1 out of the 6 characters are in France until one of them takes a trip there and meets her. Then it's another 50 or so pages till they meet again, and even then it feels rushed, so I need to do that brevity thing where I rewrite entire scenes with one or two hardworking lines.
I wish I had some fresh eyes on this to help me. I have a beta reader lined up, but I think he's better for late stages. I don't want to burden him with a bunch of scenes I could've cut myself.
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